Marcel Afice of Batavia gets information for a job from Gina Tullberg, a staffing manager with Müller Quaker Dairy, during the company's 'Meet and Greet' event at Genesee Community College in Batavia.

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Potential employees stood in a line sometimes 20 deep Tuesday to get information from or share a résumé with Müller Quaker Dairy officials.

The queue was formed inside Genesee Community College's Main Forum in Batavia as the company conducted a "Meet and Greet" event. It offered information about its yogurt products, its $206 million plant under construction near Batavia, and a chance to interact with those familiar with the joint project of the Germany-based Müller and Quaker Foods parent company PepsiCo.

Job candidates - mostly men during the early afternoon - came in jeans and ...